The poetry of Susan Howe
Subtitle: history, theology, authority
By: Will Montgomery.
Series: Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780230621978
Subjects: Howe, Susan, -- 1937- -- Criticism and interpretation; Literature and history
Description: "The Poetry of Susan Howe provides a comprehensive survey of the major works of one of America's foremost contemporary poets. The book describes the relationship between poetic form and the various configurations of history, religious thought and authority in the writing. Howe's poetry, in this account, is a means of reflecting the resistance that the past offers to contemporary investigation - the effacement, and not the recovery, of history's victims is discernible in the contours of these highly opaque texts. Addressing lyric, literary history and visual poetics, The Poetry of Susan Howe is a lucid and persuasive investigation of the volatile movements of this extraordinary body of work"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.